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Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?